Nintendo Discontinues Several Online Wii Services

The Wii U is out so that means Nintendo is starting to phase out the original Wii. Starting in late June, several of the Wii's online services will be discontinued, so say goodbye to the Wii's News channel and Everybody Votes. We also hope you're not getting your weather reports off your console.

Nintendo released the following statement:

We at Nintendo sincerely thank you for your continued patronage of our company’s products. We would like to inform you that a portion of the network services offered through the Wii console will be discontinued starting June 28, 2013. We apologize to those of you currently using these services, and ask for your understanding.

Here's what will be going down on June 28:

Forecast Channel

News Channel

Everybody Votes Channel

Nintendo Channel

Check Mii Out Channel

Data exchange between Wii friends on WiiConnect24

This all means that Wii message exchanges via Wii Message Board, Mii exchanges via Mii Channel, and exchanges of messages or data in some game titles will no longer be possible.

How often did you use some of these services? Have you fully transitioned over the the Wii U?

My My My, they started disbanding Wii Services rather quickly. Hey Nintendo, is your new strategy to force feed your existing consumer base the WiiU, leaving the Wii owners in the Dark. These functions granted are menial, but they just released the WiiU, and this is just phase 1 of the dissmantling. Desperate moves by desperate men, I give most of the Wii's online functions a year, by contrast,the original Xbox went offline 3 years ago a full 5 years after the 360 was released(But Nintendo dropping full Wii service in a year is just my prediction given thier money woes and pattern of buisness).

I personally never use any of those, but given the slower-than-expected adoption rate of the Wii U, Nintendo should probably keep these services active until at least the end of the year for the users that do use them.

Granted, if you wanted the most wrong possible weather forecast, Wii Weather was the place to get it.

Sure guys, shut down the stuff that people ENJOY about the Wii. The Wii U is a failure, enough. The only good Wii U thing was Lego City: Undercover. Should be multi-platform. But Lego markets to children, and for some reason some kids are still holding onto Nintendo. Just Dance and the 3DS are the only things holding them. 3DS because it is 3D. Just Dance because of the pop songs.